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What Businesses Should Know About Speech Technologies

Business + Management Career Insights Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Business language processing NLP speech technologyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 23, 2019

One of the top workshops at ODSC West last year (2018) was a talk by Omar Tawakol, the founder of Voicea. His company created a voice assistant that transformed meetings by handling lower order tasks like note-taking. Cisco acquired Voicea, most likely to integrate it into... Read more

How to Convince Your Boss It’s Time to Expand Your Data Science Team

Business + Management Career Insights Featured Post Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 16, 2019

Tell me if this sounds familiar. Your job description includes data science and data visualization. You’re the go-to expert for building the architecture and the point person when something goes haywire. You’re expected to make sense of the data lake and ensure it’s labeled correctly. Plus,... Read more

How to Interpret What Your AI Engineer is Telling You

Career Insights AI Engineer Business Hiringposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC August 27, 2019

You’ve hired your first AI engineer, and communication has been…tricky. It’s not that you can’t get things accomplished or that the work has been shoddy. Instead, it seems like you’re talking around each other in meetings and status updates. The good news is that you can... Read more

Is Your Business Ready for AI Adoption? How to Know for Sure

Business + Management AI ai adoption Artificial Intelligence Business small businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC August 26, 2019

The problem with new tech is that adopting it is full of uncertainty. Even if you’ve moved into a leadership position from data science, knowing how and when to implement AI adoption from a business perspective is challenging. You need to move forward, but you also... Read more

If Your Business Can’t Compete With AI, Then Quit

Business + Management Featured Post AI Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC August 6, 2019

Make no mistake. AI is going to take some jobs. It might even take entire industries and revolutionize the way we do business. If you’re worried about how your business will hold up in the coming era of machines, you aren’t alone. Your business isn’t immune,... Read more

How Product Managers Learn About AI Meeting Peak Effectiveness

Business + Management Guest contributor Accelerate AI Businessposted by Mark Cramer June 21, 2019

The most frequent question I get about AI from colleagues, product managers, and others, is, “What do I need to know about AI and what’s the best way to learn it?” I’ve invested a considerable amount of time taking numerous courses, so I dug into my... Read more

How to Write a Better Data Science Job Description

Business + Management Featured Post Accelerate AI Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 7, 2019

You’ve been looking to make a data science team, but you can’t get the right person. Too many terrible applications. Not enough talent. As data science becomes an integral part of business, business leaders are looking to add this crucial position to their teams. Unfortunately, confusion... Read more

6 Reasons Your Business AI Initiative is Falling Behind the Race

Business + Management Featured Post Accelerate AI Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 22, 2019

If you’ve gotten excited about AI’s reach into the business sector, you aren’t alone. Around 61% of businesses have already implemented some sort of AI initiative, and it’s likely your business has as well. If your AI initiative isn’t delivering the results you expected, it may... Read more

AI and Machine Learning in Practice

Business + Management Accelerate AI Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 6, 2019

AI needs to be strategic. Playing with AI on the edges and deploying small prototypes and pilots isn’t going to help revolutionize your business model. Rather, taking a long look at your current business and deciding where AI has the potential to make the most significant... Read more

Deep Learning for Business: 5 Use Cases

Deep Learning Featured Post Modeling Business Deep Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC February 8, 2019

Enterprises at every stage of growth from startups to Fortune 500 firms are using AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies for a wide variety of applications. Deep learning, as the fastest growing area in AI, is empowering much progress in all classes of emerging markets... Read more